From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 29 8: 5:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D8437B40A for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08546; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:05:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02231; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:05:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15164.39221.111336.661501@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:05:25 -0600 (MDT) To: Arun Sharma Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NGPT 1.0.0 port to freebsd In-Reply-To: <20010629010159.A8557@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20010629010159.A8557@sharmas.dhs.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ It would have been helpful to have a one-line description of what NGPT is at the top of this, rather than requiring the folks to go to a URL. ] > - The main point of this port is to have a reasonable native freebsd > pthread implementation till the scheduler activations stuff is ready. With the current license, this won't be installed as part of the base kernel. (GPL and/or LGPL) > - Java heads: does this help to pass the JCK ? Nope. I suspect we could pass the JCK/TCK today, but we haven't run the tests yet due to legal reasons. > Is that the main reason > we can't have a binary FreeBSD JDK distribution ? I've read -java for > several months now and I still can't find the answer. It's been answered time and time again over the past months, so you must not be paying attention. The binary distribution hasn't been created because we don't have a legal license to do so (yet). However, there is (and has been) ongoing work with Sun to get something in place. The BSDi->WindRiver acquisition did *NOT* help things, as it forced us to start over from scratch as a number of folks at WindRiver who were aiding the Java team are no longer involved (as they were laid off). In summary, a Java binary distribution of JDK1.2.2 will come out *very soon* after a usable license with Sun has been signed. Hopefully, we'll have a JDK1.3 binary distribution soon after, as Greg Lewis has made alot of progress on it and has it limping along right now. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message